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The Reformation · New Testament 1522; complete Bible 1534
The German Bible
Martin Luther · 1483–1546
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What it is
The whole Bible from Hebrew and Greek into a German shaped, as its translator said, by listening to the mother in the house and the common man in the market.
Why it lasted
It made modern standard German and put scripture into the hands of anyone who could read — the single most consequential book of the Reformation.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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